Recorded in July 2015 in Vienna (AT)

The Roux Whisk is a wearable antenna receiver which picks up electromagnetic fields from its surroundings and translate them into audible sound. It is part of a series of costume receivers made for 'Magnetoceptia', a collaborative project by Patrizia Ruthensteiner and Dewi de Vree.

The Roux Whisk, inspired by the shape of the historical Medici Ruff and constructed from bended hazelnut rods, is a stereo Antenna Receiver which includes two different patterns woven into the basic structure of the costume.

The project necessitates an involved participation and the object or event under consideration is by necessity considered not as an artefact but in its dynamic production that involves the performer/listener as intersubjectively constituted in perception, while producing the very thing he perceives, and both, the subject and the work thus generated concomitantly, are as transitory as each other.

 

Magnetoceptia
“Magnetoception: a sense which allows an organism to detect a magnetic field to perceive direction, altitude or location.”

Magnetoceptia is a series of performances and installations in which self constructed antenna-based costumes pick up electromagnetic fields and translate them into electronic sounds.

Hazlenut rods bended into the shape of a historical medici ruff, birch antlers, bamboo stems extending towards the skies, or an anachronistic recycled spinning wheel combined with open electronics and coils of copper wire wound into different patterns into the costume, the project is an investigation on different properties of natural and technological materials.

The experienced sound is site specific and depends on the electromagnetic fields that are present on the location. It is modulated by the performers by their positions and movements relative to the space and each other.

The 'homo superiors' (Friedrich Nietzsche) gain the ability to grow far beyond their human limitations and evoke a transformation not just physical extension, but also through sound and change of their 'sound shape' constantly audibly mirroring their surroundings.

Magnetoceptia // Roux Whisk

Recording of a 2 hr b2b set I played with Gabor PK @ yje Counter Culture afterparty. Unfortunately the soundquality could be a bit better But I still hope you will enjoy it!

Magnetoceptia // Roux Whisk

Dewi de Vree

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